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THE 



OCHTERLONEY FAMILY 



OF SCOTLAND, 



AND BOSTON, IN NEW ENGLAND. 



Bv 



WALTER KENDALL VVATKINS. 



PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. 

BOSTON, U. S. A. 

1902. 



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[Reprinted from New-Eng. Historical and Genealogical Registek for April, 1902.] 



THE SCOTCH ANCESTRY OF MAJ.-GEN. SIR DAVID 

OCHTERLONEY, BART., A NATIVE OF BOSTON, 

IN NEW ENGLAND. 



The Scotch furnished a large number of people who early colonized New 
England. It was on the LOfch of September, H550,that the Council of State 
in England considered as to the disposal of the Scotch prisoners who had 

been taken at the battle of Dunbar, just one week previous ; and within the 
following week a scheme had been propounded for the transportation of 
some of them beyond the seas, while others, on the proposition of Crom- 
well, the Lord General, were to be sent to Ireland. These last numbered 
some two thousand, but it was not thought best to send to Inland the High- 
landers, ■■ by reason of their affinity to the Irish." Down and Antrim were 
counties tilled with Scots who had made a first lodgement there in the time 
of Henry VII 1., while in Ulster were also many Scots, as all British landhold- 
ers, by the articles of the Ulster plantation, were bound to bring households 
out of England and Scotland to people their lauds. From these Scotch 
settlements in Ireland the New World, during the eighteenth century, re- 
ceived a large Scotch-Irish emigration. 

23 Oct., 1650, the Council of State requested the admiralty committee to 
examine whether or not the Scotch prisoners were being sent to places where; 
they would be dangerous to the English Commonwealth. The proportion 
for New England was to be shipped forthwith, "as their ship is ready and 
the place is without danger." 

11 Nov., 1650, Sir Arthur Hesilrigge, who was in the North, was ordered 
to deliver 150 Scotch prisoners to Augustine Walker, master of the "Unity," 
to be transported to New England. 

On 6 Feb., 1619-50, she was ready to sail from Boston, as on that date 
a bill of health was attested for the "Unity," Augustine Walker, master. 
Her captain was of Charlestown, where he was admitted to tin; church in 
1640, and where, by his wife Hannah, he had the following children: 
Hannah, born 1640; Samuel, born 1642; Augustine, born 1646; James 
born 1647. He died before 8 Aug., 1654, when an inventory of his estate 
was taken, and adminstration granted to George Bunker and Edward Burt, 
whose sale of certain lands was confirmed by the General Court in 1656. 
At this time complaints were heard in regard to the treatment of Scotch 
prisoners on board vessels lying in the Thames, and the justices about Black- 
wall were ordered to receive some sick Scotch prisoners into their pest 
houses, to be cured at the expense of some persons who had fetched them 
from the North for transportation to the foreign plantations. 

24 March, 1651, the Council wrote. Hesilrigge, regarding the Scotch pris- 
oners remaining at Durham under his care, that 300 be delivered to Col. 
Kokeby, and 200 to Lieut. Col. Killigrew, who had been given license to 



transport them beyond the seas, and they undertaking that no use be made 
of the prisoners to the prejudice of the Commonwealth. Assistance was to 
be given in shipping them away. 

The lot under Rokeby were destined for France. The prisoners were 
confined in Durham Castle and shipped from Newcastle. In London they 
were confined in the Tiltyard at Greenwich, and the East India House and 
yard at Blackwall. Among the troops detailed to guard the prisoners in 
London, was a troop of horse under Major Stephen Winthrop, the fourth 
son of Gov. Jolin Winthrop of Massachusetts. 

In 1651, the Scotch taken at Worcester and other places were added, 
and a commission was formed, 16 Sept., 1651, to have power to dispose to 
the plantations all the prisoners under the grade of a field officer. 22 Sept., 
1551, those prisoners at Liverpool, Chester and Stafford were ordered sent 
to Bristol to be sent abroad. 

At York Castle many prisoners were confined. 2 Dec, 1651, an infec- 
tious disease broke out among those in London, who had been ordered to 
the plantation and inquiry was made as to why they had been left behind, 
and it was ordered there be paid for their subsistence 4d. a day for privates, 
and 5s. per week for officers. 

Of a shipment from London, 11 Nov., 1651, in the " John and Sarah," 
John Green, master, bound for Boston in New England, of a lot of nearly 
300 Scotchmen consigned to Thomas Kenible of Charlestown, we have not 
only the record but nearly a complete list of the names of those who were 
thus forced to assist in the colonization of a new country. The consignee 
was a merchant of Charlestown, where he first appears as receiving his hu- 
man freight, and from the proceeds of which he doubtless purchased his 
house and warehouse in Charlestown, and his interest in saw mills at Dover 
and on the Piscataqua. The consignors were Robert Rich of London, John 
Beex and William Green. In this ship was a quantity of provisions, iron- 
work and household stuff, free of duty by ordinance of Parliament, shipped 
by Robert Rich, who had, a year previously, shipped on the " Speedwell " 
a cargo mostly of linens and cloths valued at over £2000. 

On the 6 Jan., 1657, a score or more Scotsmen gathered together in Bos- 
ton " to make a box " in which each was to place sixpence quarterly, and 
twelve pence was to be paid by new members on joining, the same to be for 
the relief of themselves when necessary, or of any of the Scotch nation they 
saw cause to help. One of good report, fearing God and hating covetous- 
ness, was chosen as boxmaster. ThiB was the founding of the Scots Chari- 
table Society, which still exists in Boston. 

On its rolls we find entered, year by year, the names of its members, and 
in many cases from whence in Scotland they came. Many of the names 
became prominent in the affairs of the town and province : Duncan Camp- 
bell, book binder ; Francis Borland and John Borland ; George Jaffray of 
Piscataqua ; George Bethune ; John Hamilton, postmaster-general ; Wil- 
liam Douglas, M.D. ; Thomas Inches; Robert Auchmutie; John Smibert; 
John Scollay ; Thomas Handyside Peck ; William Hyslop ; George Traill, 
and scores of others, who became more or less prosperous in their adopted 
country. A large number enrolled were but transients among the popula- 
tion of the largest and most prosperous port of the Northern Atlantic coast, 
which always had a floating population of mariners and soldiers. Thus, under 
date of 1739, appears " Peter McKeuzie, Cromarty, son to ye Earl of Crom- 
arty." We fail to find him, however, among the progeny of any of the Earls 
of Cromarty of that period given in Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, and are 



forced to consider him either an imposter or an example of a Scotch bar 
sinister. Under date of 1752 we find the name of "David Ochterlony, 
Montrose." Though there were members of the Ochterlouey family living 
at Montrose at this time, his residence there was only for a short period, 
and it probably was the port from which he sailed to New England. He 
was the second son of Alexander Ochterloney, Laird of Pitforthy, and Eliza- 
beth, daughter of David Tyrie of Duirnydeer. 

The records showing the antiquity of prominent Scotch families, in their 
completeness and the amount of data furnished, compare favorably with 
those of England. The modes of procedure of the courts, and the forms 
of the Presbyterian Church, in Scotland, are different from those of the 
Courts and of the Established Church in England, the Public Records also 
vary. The Parish registers contain not only the vital records, but, in many 
instances, the minutes of church mee'tings, with entries similar to those 
found in our church records in New England, which seem therefore to have 
been modelled more after the Scotch Presbyterian form. The Probate 
matters are to be found in twenty-two Commissariat Courts covering the 
territory of Scotland, the earliest about 1550. These are supplemented by 
the Records of Retours and Service of Heirs, which go back to 1545, and 
are similar to the Inquisitions Post Mortem of England. The Saisine 
records are those of land rights, and date from 1600. 

For earlier matter, there are the Great Seal records, Privy Seal, Chan- 
cery, Exchequer, Court of Sessions, and Burgh records, Sheriff Courts, 
Regality Courts, Barony, and Bailie Courts, Diligence records, Register 
of Arms, &c. ; while the earliest must be extracted from the records of 
the abbeys, and from family archives. From these sources the follow- 
ing facts relating to the Ochterloney family have been gathered. 

The English prefixes "Auchter"and "Ochter" are corruptions from 
the Gaslic " Uachar," meaning upper or top. Ochterloney belongs to For- 
farshire, meaning " the elegant top or summit." Between 1226 and 1239, 
Walter, son of Turpin, exchanged the lands of Othirlony, which had be- 
longed in heritage to his ancestors, for those of Kenny in the parish of 
Kingoldruin, Forfar, possessed by the Abbey of Aberbrothock. They had 
been bestowed on the Abbey by a charter of William the Lyon, and con- 
firmed by Alexander III., and again by King Robert Bruce. 

In Kingoldruin, at the present time, the locality is still known as the farm 
of Meikle Kenny; while Kyrkton, also mentioned in the charter of con- 
firmation to John de Othyrlony, of 3 Sept., 1351, is still identified in the 
farm of Kirkton, in the same parish. 

The family were of some prominence at an early day. Walter Ochterlo- 
ney is recorded as having sworn fealty to Edward I., in 1296, following the 
example of Baliol who swore fealty to Edward, at Norham Castle, in 1292. 

In 1342, Johanne Ochterloney was Sheriff of Forfar. 

In 1351, there appears in the Register of the Abbey of Aberbrothock a 
confirmation to John Ochterloney, by the Abbot, of the lands at Kenny. 

In 1391, William Ochterloney made a gift of the relief of Melgund. 

The Register of the Abbey recites in 1409 that William and Alexander 
were the sons of William Ochterloney. 

In the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, under date 4 Nov., 1444, 
in a confirmation charter of lands in Kelly, we find William de Ouchter- 
loney of Kelly, while under date 18 Dec, 1467, we find the King con- 
firms the charter of William de Ouchterloney of the same, who conceded to 
William de Ouchterloney, son and heir of Alexander de Ouchterloney, the 



lands of Balnahardis 3 with those of " Kattoune Baw" in the Barony of 
Ochterloney. 

It was just previous to the confirmation of 1444 that prohably Kelly 
came into the Ochterloney family by marriage with a Stewart, hence the 
quartering of the Stewart arms, as shown hi the ancient arms of Ochter- 
loney. John Ochterloney of Guy ml, ciica, 1682, furnished to Sir Robert 
Sibbald, Geographer for the King, an account of Forfarshire, in which he 
included some remarks about the Ochterloney family and their intermar- 
riages. The Stewart marriage is the first he alludes to, but if it is the one 
given above, he errs in calling the family that of Stewart of Eosyth, Fife, 
as it was Stewart of Kellie. 

Another statement, that his grandfather saw a letter from Sir William 
Wallace directed to his trusty friend the Laird of Ouchterloney, requiring 
him to repair with his friends and servants to his aid, has been greatly 
doubted (Spottiswood Miscellany, p. 350). In 1445, the annual rent from 
Panmure to William Ochterloney of Kelly was £8, 6s., 8d. 

After this date Kelly is called " Kelly alias Ochterloney," or ''Ochter- 
loney alias Kelly." 

In a confirmation of the lands of Kennvmykle, 12 Apr., 14G6, by Wal- 
ter, Abbot of the monastery at Aberbrothock, to Alexander de Ochter- 
loney, son and heir of William de Ochterloney, Master of Kelly, which 
confirmation also mentions a previous charter from Malcolm the Abbot to 
the same, there is also mention of Mariote de Drummond, wife of Alex- 
ander Ochterloney. 

She was probably the daughter of Sir Malcolm Drummond, ancestor of 
the Earls of Perth, by his wife Mariota, daughter of Sir David Murray, 
Lord of Tullibardm. Sir Malcolm Drummond died in 1470. A record of 
the Drummonds, some of whom intermarried with the Royal family of 
Scotland, i. given, back to about the year 1100, in Douglas's Peerage of 
Scotland. 

Still later, 6 May, 1493, by the Eegister of the Abbey, David the Ab- 
bot shows the possession of the lands of Kennemekle by the Master of 
Kelly, and states that James de Ochterloney is son and heir of Alexander 
de Ochterloney. 

13 May, 1517, the King conceded to William Ochterloney of Kelly the 
lands of Loch le and Inchgromnell, in Glennesk, Forfar. 8 Sept., 1525, 
the King, for good service, conceded to William Ochterloney of that ilk, 
and Margaret Gardyne his wife, lands of Petcourent in Kerrimuir, Forfar, 
which were those of Archibald, Earl of Angus. 

28 Oct., 1525, the Abbot conceded to Alexander Ochterloney, son and 
heir apparent to William Ochterloney of Kelly, and to Elizabeth Leyr- 
mount the wife of Alexander, the lands of Kennemekyle in Kyncoldrun, 
Forfar. 

10 June, 1530, the King confirmed to Alexander Ochterloney of the 
same ilk, and Elizabeth Leirmonth his wife, the lands of Kelly alias 
Ouchterloney. 

7 Dec, 1547, Queen Mary conceded to James Ochterloney, son and heir 
apparent of Alexander Ochterloney of the same, lands in the barony of 
Ochterloney alias Kelly. 

In a Eetour of Inquest, 30 Oct., 1560, taken at the front gate of the 
monastery of Arbroath, the name of William Ochterloney of Setoun ap- 
pears, with others. 

23 Nov., 1591, the King confirmed, for good service, to William Ochter- 
>ney of the same, the lands and barony of Auchterloney alias Kelly- 



4 July, 1603, the King conceded to William Ochterloney, apparent of 
the same, and Katherine Scrymgeour his wife, the lands of Ochterloney 
with lands in Rescobie. 

20 Jan., 1603, the King ratifies two charters: (1) John, Lord Hamil- 
ton, commendator of Aberbrothock, to William Ochterloney and Barbara 
Rait his wife, of the lands of Sertoli in Aberbrothock, dated 31 Apr., 
1586; (2) John, Marquis of Hamilton, to James Ochterloney, son of the 
said William Ochterloney, and Isabell Peirsoiu wife of said James Ochter- 
loney, dated 26 Dec, 1601. 

In the Commissariat of Edinburgh, under date 6 March, 1598, we have 
"the Testament Dative and Inventory of the Estate, of Barbara Rait, 
relict of umquMle W™. Auchterloney, of Wester Seytoun, wthin the pro- 
chin of St. Vigien, Forfar, who quha decessit in the month of October the 
yeir of God jaji clxxxxvii yeirs " * * * * " Follows the dettis awin to 
the ili i<l. Item ther wes awin to the said umqle barbara rait relict of umqle 
W" Auchterloney of Wesf Seytoun be W" Auchterloney of Kellie resten 
of one yeiris anuelrent the sou me of xl ''. Ite be W m Rait of Halgrene 
pfme to his obligachm II 1 ' lxvi 1 ' xiii 9 iiii''" * * * " M r John Rait Sevito r 
to my lord of Edzall is becu caii un" (become cautioner). Gilbert Auch- 
terloney, her lawful son, was her executor. 

James Ochterloney of Wester Seytoun was witness for W m Rait of Hail- 
grene ami Robert Rait his second son, under date 13 July, 1599, for the 
lands of Conansythe, Iuverkeillour. 

In the Inquisitionum Retornatarum, under date 22 Oct., 1631, we find 
William ( Ichterloney of Wester Seatoun is heir of his father, .lames Ochter- 
loney of Wester Seatoun. 

5 March, 1639, John Ochterloney is heir of William Ochterloney of Wes- 
ter Seaton. 

From the family papers of the Wester Seaton branch, we are informed 
that the wife of John Ochterloney was Margaret Pearson, ami their son, 
James Ochterloney, married 1 Feb., 1671, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of 
James Gairden, Esq., of Midstrath in the parisli of Birs. 

James Ochterloney had a grant, 3 Aug.. 1698, of Wester Seaton, and, on 
the same day, of Tillifroskie, in the parish of Birs. 

Wester Seaton, which had then been in the family for over a century, is 
in the parish of St. Vigeans in Arbroath, and it is still identified in a farm. 
The present house is a modern one, but the site of the old mansion of the 
Ochterloney family can be identified. 

James Ochterloney died before 21 Feb., 1727, and is buried at the church 
of Birs. By his wife Elizabeth he had : 

i. ALEXANDER, b. 14 Feb., 1673. 

ii. John, b. 8 April, 1674. 

iii. Jane, b. 4 July, 1679 ; m. James Irvine. 

iv. Helen, b. 1680. 

v. James, b. 15 Sept., 1681. 

vi. Peter, b. 22 Nov., 1683. 

vii. Margaret, b. 1684; m. 1715, J. Melville. 

viii. Matty, b. 1685. 

ix. Isabel, b. 1687. 

x. David, b. 22 Jan., 1690; d. Feb., 1739. 

xi. Elizabeth, b. 1692. 

xii. Anna, b. 1693. 

xiii. Alexander, b. 16 Sept., 1695; of whom later. 

David Ochterloney of Tillifroskie, born 21 Jan., 1690, died 1739, and is 
buried at Birs. He married Mary, daughter of Peter Forbes of Balfour 



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in the parish of Fettercairn, and she died in Feb., 1739, and was carried to 
the grave with her husband. 

On 14 Jan., 1744, Peter Ochterloney of Tillifroskie was served as Heir 
General to his father, David Ochterloney of Tillifroskie. 26 Sept., 1755, he 
was served as Heir Special, in Tillifroskie, Boghead, Rammahagan and Birs, 
to his father David, who died in 1739. 

The eight children of David and Mary (Forbes) Ochterloney were : 
i. Peter, who m. Margaret, dau. of Thomas Buchan, Laird of Auchma- 

coy, and had five children, 
ii. David, a captain in General Monkton's regiment of foot, who was 
unm., and d. of wounds received at the Siege of Quebec, Aug., 1754. 
iii. James, a twin of David, d, in Feb., 1739. 

iv. Alexander, a planter in the Island of Dominica, where he d. 25 May, 
1779. He m. Mary Ann, dau. of John Gordon of Dominica, and had 
two daughters. 
v. Elizabeth, who m. Francis Douglas of Aberdeen and Abbots Inch, son 
of Robert Douglas of Blackmiln, Logic Coldstone. He was an author, 
of whom a sketch is given in " Eminent Scotsmen," by Irvine. 

Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, the author of the earliest published 
Scotch Peerage and Baronage, and a kinsman and contemporary of Robert of 
Blackmiln, states the latter's descent is from John, son of Sir Archibald Doug- 
las of Glenbervie, a grandson of Archibald, 5th Earl of Angus, commonly 
known as "Bell the Cat." Francis and Elizabeth (Ochterloney) Douglas 
had one son, Robert, a merchant at St. Domingo, and five daughters, one 
of whom, Bethia, married Hugh, son of John Cochrane, Baillie of Paisley. 
Hugh aud Bethia (Douglas) Cochrane were the grandparents of the late 
Alexander Cochrane, formerly in business with the late Gov. Thomas Talbot, 
at Billerica, Mass., and founder, in 1859, of the Cochrane Chemical Works 
at South Maiden, now Everett. Mass. 

vi. Mary, who m. Alexander Dyce of Aberdeen, and had five sons and 
three daughters. 

vii. Ann, who m. Andrew Tate. 

vii. Bethia, who m. Charles Tate, an advocate in Aberdeen. 

Alexander Ochterloney, born 16 Sept., 1695, son of James and Elizabeth 
(Gairden) Ochterloney, married 1 Nov., 1721, Elizabeth, daughter of David 
Tyrie of Duunydeer ; she died 23 July, 1749. He was Laird of Pitforthy, 
Brechin, Forfarshire. In this parish are still to be found the farms of East 
Pitforthie aud the Mains of Pitforthie. His five sons and two daughters 
were : 

i. Gilbert, of Newtown Mill and Pitforthy, who m. 25 Sept., 1745, Maria, 
dau. of William Smith, Professor of Philosophy at Aberdeen. He d. 
without issue, 6 Feb., 1786. 
ii. David, d. 30 Oct., 1765 ; of whom presently. 

iii. jAMes, who d. on the Isle of Man, 8 March, 1760, leaving a daughter, 
Elizabeth, wife of Alexander Fairweatherof Brechin, and afterwards 
of Philadelphia, 
iv. Alexander, Lieut, of the " Juno," killed by an accident at Quiberon 

Bay in 17G0; unm. 
v. Charles, who d. in Bengal, in 1755. 
vi. Elizabeth, who d. unm., in 1782. 

vii. Jane, who m. 17 Sept., 1748, John Lyon, Esq., of Forgandenny and 
Castle Lyon, North Britain. She d. in April, 1775, leaving Issue. 

David, second son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Tyrie) Ochterloney, 
was a captain in the merchant service, residing for a while at Montrose. 
Probably Boston was one of the many ports visited by him in his voyages. 

Five years after his first appearance in Boston, 4 June, 1757, his inten- 



tion of marriage was published to Katherine, daughter of Andrew Tyler 
of Boston, by his wife Miriam, a sister of Sir William Pepperell. On 
27 June, 1702, he purchased a brick house with about 1500 sq. feet of 
land, on Back Street, which at that time was that part of Salem Street 
from Hanover Street to Prince Street.* Meanwhile three sons and a 
daughter were born : David, Gilbert (d. 1780), Alexander (d. 1803), and 
Catherine (d. 1792). 

The eldest of these was David, born 12 Feb., 17.38, who was to revive the 
glory of the name in a new locality. 

Burke's '• Extinct Baronetcies " states that Gilbert Ochterloney, the sec- 
ond son, died in 1763. The following extract from the Gentleman's Mag- 
azine tells a different story. Under Deaths, 16 Jan. 1780, "Gilbert Och- 
terling, (Ochterloney), esq. ; a very amiable youth, aged about 1 6. He died 
at the house of his father Isaac Heard, esq. in the college of arms. [The 
eighth line in our last, p. 51, col. 2, is a mistake.] ' This last refers to a 
death item of the preceding month, " at the Heralds College, Isaac Heard, 
esq." 

Capt. David Ochterloney, the father, continued his career as a mariner, 
but a few years after locating permanently in Boston he died, in 1765, at 
St. Vincent. His will, made at the time of his marriage, was probated 7 
March, 1766, and left everything to his wife "Katrin;" but his debts 
made his estate insolvent, and it was not till 1791 that a sum was realized 
to close up the estate, by a dividend of six and a half pence on the pound, 
to his creditors. 

His widow went to England, where she married second, Sir Isaac Heard 
of London, Norroy and Garter King of Arms, and Gentleman of the Red 
Rod to the Order of the Bath. 

Sir Isaac Heard, born 10 Dec, 1740, at Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, 
did not die till 29 Apr., 1822. During his official career as Garter King 
at arms he proclaimed the titles, &c, at the funerals of six generations of 
the House of Brunswick. He proclaimed George IV. as King, at Carlton 
House, 31 Jan. 1820. 

The son David, born 1758, was a scholar at the Latin School in Boston 
when his father died, in 1765. At the age of eighteen he went to India as 
a cadet, and in 1778 received an appointment as Ensign. In 1781 he was 
Quartermaster to the 71st Regiment of Foot. He attained the rank of 
Major in 1800, Lieutenant-Colonel in 1803, and Colonel in 1812. His 
commission as Major-General bears the date of 1 June, 1814. In 1817 he 
received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament, and alter nearly fifty 
years of uninterrupted military duty, through impaired health he was 
forced to resign, with the intention of returning to England, but while at 
Meerut, for a change of air, died 15 July, 1825. He was Deputy-Adju- 
tantrGeneral at the Battle of Delhi, after which he was sent as Envoy to 
the Court of Shah Alum. For his conduct in the Nepaulese war he was 
created a Knight Commander of the Bath, and 7 March, 1816, was made a 
baronet. These distinctions were the occasion of researches in the family 
history, by Sir Isaac Heard, his stepfather, which resulted iu an account of 
the family back to about the year 1650. This account was kindly placed 

* The late Rev. Edward G. Porter, in his " Rambles in Old Boston, N. E.," pp. 346-9, 
states that the old house still standing on the corner of North and Centre Streets was 
owned by David Ochterloney, and he gives it the name of the Ochterloney-Adan house. 
The house was only mortgaged to Ochterloney by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Miriam Tyler, 
in 1762, about the time he bought his Salem Street house. Tradition states that Sir 
David Ochterloney was born in a house on Queen (Court) Street. 



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at the disposal of the writer, by the present baronet, and was confirmed, 
and added to his own researches. 

The arms granted were: Azure, a lion rampant argent, holding in 
his paws a trident erect or, and charged on the shoulder with a key, the wards 
upward, of the field ; a chief embattled or, thereon two banners in saltire, 
the one of the Mahratta states vert, inscribed Delhi, the other of the states 
of Nepaul ; the staves broken and encircled by a wreath of laurel proper. 

In the patent, granted 1816, the title did not descend, and was re-created, 
8 Dec, 1823, and the limitation was extended to Charles Metcalf Ochter- 
loney, of Delhi, son of Roderick-Peregrine and Sarah (Nelley) Ochter- 
loney. Sir Charles married 31 Dec, 1844, Sarah, daughter of William P. 
Tribe, of Liverpool, and was succeeded by his son, the present baronet, Sir 
David Ferguson Ochterloney, to whom the writer is indebted for courtesies 
and hospitality on many occasions. 

The arms of the Ochterloney family used in past centuries are those de- 
scribed in the account of John Ochterloney, circa 1682 : — Azure, a lion 
rampant argent, within a border gules entoure of eight buckles or. Above 
the shield a helmet mantled gules and double argent, and on the torse for a 
crest an eagle displayed azure with an escallop in her beak argent. The motto 
" Deus mini adjutor." These arms were registered by John Ochterloney of 
Guynd, and two of his kinsfolk, in 1072-1 678. Then the Stewart quarter- 
ing previously used, namely, or a fesse chequy argent and azure, was dropped. 

In 1771) there was ctrtified to, in the College of Arms, London : "Azure 
a lion rampant argent charged on the side with a key in pale of the field and 
holding in the dexter paw a trident or. Crest, a swan rousant argent ducally 
crowned or, collared and chained of the last, charged on the breast with a 
rose gules." This was probably the work of Sir Isaac Heard. 

The crest last given has been modified in recent years, inasmuch as the 
breast is charged with a buckle gules instead of a rose, and the wings and 
body debruised by a bendlet sinister wavy azure. The motto is " Spe labor 
levis." 

Other branches of the family have flourished in Scotland, but the limits 
of this sketch prevent a detailed account of them. 

We have carried out the line of the Wester Seyton branch, from that at 
Kelly in the middle of the 16th century; and less than a century later, in 
1614, William Ochterloney sold Kelly, and the family became seated at 
Guynd in the parish of Carmilie, six miles west of Arbroath. This was 
held by the Ochterloney name till the death of John Ochterloney, in 1843, 
when it went to his nephew, James Peirson. 

In 1826, John Ochterloney contested with the government the right of 
sepulchre, for members of the family, under the high altar of the Abbey of 
Arbroath, the government having acquired the ruins for preservation. It 
was decided against him. On the death of Mr. Peirson, by his request 
Guynd went to Col. T. II. Ochterloney, of the Montrose branch of the fam- 
ily, John Ochterloney of Montrose having married Ann Ochterloney of 
Guynd, in the previous century. 

In 1654, John Ochterloney of Hospitalfield was heir of his father, John of 
Guynd, in the towns and lands of Hospitalfield, more widely known as the 
" Monkbairn" of Sir Walter Scott's " The Antiquary," the scenes of which 
are laid in the vicinity of Arbroath. 

A short account of the localities in which the Ochterloney family resided 
rnight be of some value, in view of the fact that it is usually impossible to 
find in gazetteers the localities mentioned in ancient deeds and charters of 



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Scotch families, the names being those of estates, and the parish is often 
never mentioned. 

John Ochterloney, in his account of Forfar, states that Balmadie in the 
parish of Rescobie, belonging to the Lairds of Ochterloney, was the manor 
house of the family, and their burials were at the Kirk of Rescobie, until 
they purchased Kelly. We have seen, however, by the earliest charters, 
etc., that before they acquired Kelly, they had the lands of Kennymykle 
in the parish of Kingoldrum. A reference to his account of Kingoldrum 
fails to find any mention of the family having had lands in that parish, 
though he has made frequent reference to their connection with other par- 
ishes. Resobie is three miles from Forfar, but the parish is six miles long, 
and the Mains of Ochterloney, so called, is at the extreme south-east end. 
six miles from Forfar towards Arbroath. To the north-west of Forfar is 
Kingoldrum, and the farms of Meikle Kenny and Kirkton are about ten 
miles north-west of Forfar. 

From Kingoldrum we pass to Kelly, which is in the parish of Abirlot. 
Kelly Castle, a line example of an old Scotch manor, is three miles from 
Arbroath. It is owned by the Karl of Dalhousie, who inherited it from the 
Earls of Panmure, and is now leased to a Dundee tradesman. Wester Sey- 
ton is in the parish ol St. Yigeans. and now included in Arbroath. It is a 
farm which is north of that place, on a high cliff, and has been farmed by 
the Francis family tor about a century. The modern house does not stand 
on the site of the old mansion. 

From Wester Seyton to Tillifroskie is a distance of some forty miles 
northward, to the Forest of Birse and the Vallej of the Dee. It is reached 
by the railway running between Aberdeen and Ballater. Tillifroskie be- 
longs to the Farquharsons, Lairds of Finzean, and is a f arm that still retains 
the name. 

The next move of the family was south Mime eighteen miles to Brechin, 
ten miles north-east of Forfar and seven miles west of Montrose. There 
the Laird of Pitforthy held sway at the present farm of the Mains of Pit- 
forthie, which is near the celebrated Glencadam Whisky Distillery. It is but 
a short journey to Montrose ; but the succeeding generation was to be born 
three thousand miles to the westward, and then the scene changed to India. 
Thus we have the wanderings of a Scotch family for six centuries. 



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